This volume investigates the English spatial preposition over and prepositions in general, frequently regarded as function words with little semantic content, a

In Cognitive Linguistics, polysemy is regarded as a categorizing phenomenon; i.e., related meanings of words form categories centering around a prototype and be

Using a cognitive linguistics perspective, this book provides a comprehensive, theoretical analysis of the semantics of English prepositions. All English prepos

This striking study of the meaning and use of the major spatial prepositions in French provides valuable insight into how the human mind organizes spatial relat

This completely revised and expanded edition of English Prepositions Explained (EPE), originally published in 1998, covers approximately 100 simple, compound, a